Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

The david rockefeller studies program: cfr's think tank analyzes pressing global challenges and offers actionable steps that policymakers and citizens can take to address them. The more than seventy full-time and adjunct fellows in studies cover all the world's major regions and significant Foreign policy issues. In addition to producing books, articles, op-eds, blogs, podcasts, and interactives, the studies program administers eleven fellowship programs.

Product, design, and engineering (pde) designs, develops, and maintains products that serve the Council's mission to impart a better understanding of the world among its members and other interested citizens. We collaborate with departments across the Council to set and execute the digital vision for cfr.org, as well as for a robust portfolio of microsites and member services. We are committed to user-centricity in our approach, iteration in our implementation, and stability in our sites and services. Cfr.org continues to be a leading source of timely analysis on critical Foreign policy issues. The website's most popular products are cfr backgrounders, which provide authoritative, accessible, and regularly updated primers on hundreds of Foreign policy topics. (continued on schedule o) the website's second most popular product, the Council's global conflict tracker (gct), is an interactive dashboard created and maintained by the center for preventive action, which tracks and analyzes armed conflicts around the world in real time.

For over 100 years, Foreign affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of american Foreign policy and global affairs. It is now a multiplatform media organization with a print magazine, a website, a mobile site, a podcast, apps and social media feeds. Throughout its history, Foreign affairs has stayed true to its mission published in the first issue of the magazine in 1922: "Foreign affairs will deal with questions of international interest today. They will cover a broad range of subjects, not only political but historical and economic. In pursuance of its ideals Foreign affairs will not devote itself to the support of any one cause, however worthy. Like the Council on Foreign Relations from which it has sprung it will tolerate wide differences of opinion. (continued on schedule o) its articles will not represent any consensus of beliefs. What is demanded of them is that they shall be competent and well informed, representing honest opinions seriously held and convincingly expressed."

All other programmatic activitiescfr's website, cfr.org, is one of the organization's primary communications channels to its various audiences. The site publishes a rich variety of types of content, including the daily news analysis, backgrounders, interviews, podcasts, opinion pieces, full text of publications from the think tank, resources in support of the various outreach initiatives, videos and transcripts of on-the-record meetings and seminars and more. The site also provides a comprehensive account of the history and activities of cfr in new york and at its Washington d.c. office. The stephen m. kellen term member program encourages promising young leaders in government, media, nongovernmental organizations, law, business, finance, and academia to engage in a sustained conversation on international affairs and u.s. Foreign policy. The program allows these younger members to interact with seasoned foreign-policy experts and participate in a wide variety of events designed especially for them. Each year a new class of term members, between the ages of 30 and 36, is elected to a five-year membership term. The Council on Foreign Relations sponsors independent task forces to assess issues of critical importance to u.s. Foreign policy. Diverse in backgrounds and perspectives, task force members work to reach meaningful consensus across partisan lines on matters of policy. Since the program's inception in 1995, task forces have become a trademark of the council.students today live in a world more connected than at any point in history, where fast-spreading viruses, carbon emissions, and scientific breakthroughs transcend borders. To successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead requires that they develop global literacy, the essential knowledge, skills, and perspective needed to understand how our complicated and fascinating world works. Since 2015, cfr education has devoted itself to this vital work, developing award-winning classroom products designed to introduce students in middle school all the way through graduate school to the fundamentals of Foreign policy and international Relations in order to make sense of the world around them.in regards to outreach initiatives, the Council is committed to reaching out to different constituencies so that they better understand the world and the Foreign policy choices facing the united states and other governments. Cfr is devoting more time and energy to connecting with and serving as a resource for groups of interested citizens whose voices are increasingly important to the national Foreign policy debate. These constituencies include educators and students; religious and congregational leaders; and state and local officials; and local journalists. Cfr's additional programs are education, a national program and a global board of advisors. For more information, please visit the organization's website, www.cfr.org.total expenses associated with other program service activities are as follows:education - $4,817,000meetings program - $4,490,000 membership - $2,562,700 outreach - $2,278,900national program - $2,053,000 term member program - $770,300 task force - $520,000 global board of advisors - $96,900 total revenue associated with other program service activities are as follows:membership dues (non-contribution) - $16,630,000